I have been saving this rant for a while now, but I can’t keep it in any longer, and **I don’t care what backlash or downvotes I’ll get from this, because enough is ENOUGH!** So here goes.

I think **Zexerios: The Universal Paradox** is a shitty shitty game. GOD! you don’t know how good it feels to get this out of my chest. Don’t worry I am not done yet, in fact I am just getting started:

* I hate that **Omni-destroyers** keep destroying planets one by one. I get that without this mechanic then they won’t feel as intimidating or feel like an actual threat to the universe, but why am I punished for doing things I like ? that’s bullshit. I like to take my time by exploring each planet or city, taking the time to gear up and outfit your army, or just simply relaxing and bonding with your spaceship crew. Yet it’s doing those exact things the game is all about, that lets you lose on planets filled with quests, dungeons, characters, and spaceships and weapon manuals.

* F*** Bard. I don’t care how important he is to the story, and to the defeat of the Omni-destroyers. They couldn’t have made him any more unlikable. He sleeps with Cyvers ambassador if you don’t take him on the excavation mission, ruining your alliance with them. He ruins any chance of peace with the Galactic Ninjas (yes yes I know you can still get them by the end of the game, that’s not the point). He literally steals candy from a baby, and I don’t care if it was a space dragon baby, it’s still a baby. Just the fact that he came third in the Famitsu character poll drives me up the wall. So again…**F#@$ YOU BRAD!**

* Screw everything about the Crafting System. Why do I have to actually memorize things like their made up **fantasy Periodic Table of Elements**, or the weird and frankly complex rules for inventions. Just to craft one plasma blade or even the most basic hyperion bazooka, I have to find the schematics, recruit the appropriate inventor (with Plasma weapons specialty already unlocked btw), mine from a dead star (while beating off the eldritch horrors that are living in it), and spend IT points that are already hard to get ?…I say no sir.

* How come I can’t have romantic relations with anyone from the **Celestial Shapers** nation ? if you can let me marry and have kids with freaking space dragons, then at the very least I should be able to marry any (at the very least the playable ones) of the Shapers. Yes I know lore wise they can’t have children and that messes with the generational game mechanics, but I don’t believe for a second they couldn’t have made a work around for that. They gave you an option to continue the game even if you destroy Earth and betray the human race didn’t they ? so this shouldn’t have been an issue.

* Why do I need to sacrifice my best platoon of fighters just to finally unlock the ability to make better and different fighters ? I realize it’s part of the story, and that I can skip it. But if I skip it then I don’t unlock the ability until the war with **Cyvers**. That’s like 10 hours later. Bullshit.

* I know a lot of people didn’t like **Jack Thunder Guy**, but he was the only character I was fully invested in. Yes he sacrificed an entire solar system, but that’s what makes him standout from the rest. He makes the hard choices, and doesn’t make excuses when he’s questioned about them. I think the entire court chapter is good, but a huge waste, why make me go around and do all of that work to prepare for his trial, and then go through that long court event trying to have him declared innocent, when in the end he will still refuse to abide by the court’s decision and gets exiled into the dark zone. I don’t care if they are saving him for the sequel, I wanted him in this game too damn it.

* Too many characters and too many nations. My god, how can I keep up with all of this ? are you serious ? **450 freaking characters and at least 25 nations**. I get that it makes sense considering the scale of the game, but I can’t keep up. This is me in every Alliance Counsel meeting at the end of each year “**Wait, who is that ? who the hell are you ? what ? you’re one of my guys ?**”. And for the love of everything why is **the nation chosen to betray me is randomized every time**, which in turn changes the story dynamics entirely each time ? do you know how impossible this makes it to even think about speedrunning the game ?


* Ok this one is a personal one, but I don’t think that your main character should be able to pilot a space fighters, a mecha, have the ability to fuse with the Cyversers, and be able to equip Xeno Suits. I am not against having more options and freedom of choice, but having that many, each with their skill tree just makes it hard to balance and focus on one thing. When will I have the points to spend on Alchemy ? Omni-technology ? Hacking ? Alien languages ? Body modifications ? etc… It’s too much.